Last night I took some time to sit with both baby kittens while they gobbled the bowl of wet food I put down for them. When they hear me, they come out of the Wendy, bobbing their heads to see when 'food happens' ... both of them! Same thing this morning! I sat with them last night, the one has got quite used to my presence. Hisses now and again, but while eating, quite happily ignores me. The other one is still wary of me. It stayed outside the Wendy, but wouldn't go to the bowl to eat for a long time. It seemed to even contemplate hiding all together, but hunger drove the poor mite to the food bowl.
Seeing the both up close gave me a chance to notice their differences. They do look very similar, but the one I've held before has only grey and white facial markings, while the other one had distinctively brown tabby facial markings.
As I was home early, I showered before load shedding. I watered the garden during load shedding ... then sat on the veranda. My tenant joined me, he's got marriage problems. His wife is at home, and - under her parent's influence - not setting a date when she's coming back. I suppose, as a result, she no longer has a job. She was due to start last Monday.
I struggled to go to sleep ... poor mippies are not getting too much attention from me, with my mind so completely engrossed in work. I make time, though.
This morning, I went outside, fed Smeagol and his big family ... the babies were bobbing their head up over the fence from the Wendy, so I went back inside and got a bowl of wet food for them, as well.
I'm putting more time and energy into staying calm, telling myself 'not my circus, not my monkeys' over and over again ... I'm not getting done what I need to get done! Like, my own personal stuff! Like everybody else is doing!
Anyway ... hoping for a better mood tomorrow.
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